awry
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 10
- Words With Friends
- 9
- Letters
- 4
/əˈɹaɪ/
(UK)
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/əˈɹaɪ/ (UK) · /əˈɹɑɪ/ · /ˈɔː.ɹi/
Definition of awry
4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
adv
- Obliquely, crookedly; askew.
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adv
- Obliquely, crookedly; askew.
- Perversely, improperly.
adj
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Turned or twisted toward one side; crooked, distorted, out of place; wry.
“The frame was awry.”
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(figuratively)Wrong or distorted; perverse, amiss, off course
“There is something awry with this story.”
“It came inside 50 minutes and moments later Cavani should have had a 12th. Pogba and Shaw combined before the left-back’s cross teed up the striker but his radar was awry.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English awry, awrie. By surface analysis, a- + wry.
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